Below are projects from a time full of ink, paper, press, collaboration, unconventional exploration, and design abstraction from 2018-2020 in Grand Rapids, MI
You’ll see:
Letterpress
Mural Work
Performance Pieces
A great group of creatives :’)
NotDesign
⟡ Studio Collaboration
Challenge Privilege
October, 2020
Kyd Kane Poetry Presents: Challenge Privilege w/ Liquid Courage
Live SiTE:LAB event featuring: poet and spoken word artist Kyd Kane, hip hop artist Callab, jazz musician and poet CC, and cellist Jordan Hamilton. Special guests: DJ set by SuperDre, and experimental design studio, Not Design spun Performative Typography through live responsive Letterpress.
The Critical Infrastructure stage was designed by artist Paul Amenta and architect Ted Lott of Lott3Metz Architecture, in collaboration with DisArt
A Language
August-October, 2018
Public Space 415
SiTE:LAB, ArtPrize 10
An ongoing performance-based project, ‘A Language’ was an experiment in how language facilitates exchange among a community. Using primarily letterpress printing as a medium, we invited visitors to contribute to our dialog through the work of the Grand Rapids Fine Art Delivery Company (GRFADC). The GRFADC workshop was open for business during posted operating hours, facilitating live printing on-site and exchanges by both bike and mail delivery. This collaborative narrative allowed for a conversation that challenged both language and community as its been previously defined.
** We were fortunate enough to be stationed in the same building as Le’Andra Leseur, the Juried Grand Prize Winner, with her 3-week performance piece, “brown, carmine, and blue" ——— I highly suggest searching it up :’)
100 Years, 100 Lines
January, 2019
UICA
Installed during Warm Water, a show of work by artist Charles Williams. Warm Water is a collection of re-narrated visual works based on the event that sparked the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Inspired by Williams’s use of hot and cold elements in his work, 100 Years, 100 Lines is an abstract representation of the warm and cool sides of the color spectrum, merging together in the center and creating both tension and harmony at the same time. The mural was installed on the exhibitions entrance ramp of the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI.